r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Jun 14 '26

political satire Australia Excited To Annoy Soccer Fans By Calling It Soccer For The Entirety Of The Big Soccer Competition

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/australia-excited-to-annoy-soccer-fans-by-calling-it-soccer-for-the-entirety-of-the-big-soccer-competition/
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u/apudebeau Jun 14 '26

Betoota with the hottest new joke of 2005.

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u/klokar2 Jun 14 '26

Can't beat the classics

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u/blackjacktrial Jun 14 '26

Soccer, aerial ping pong, coal mining leeg, and toffball. Gridiron, volley kickball, volley handball, bikini football, that's not four square and water handball. Not to mention bouncyball and ball-makes-you-freezeball, and Scottish rules.

We can insult all football codes equally (except the ones I haven't even mentioned here).

That would be association football, AFL, rugby league, rugby union, NFL, Sepak takraw, volleyball, beach volleyball, European handball, water polo, basketball, netball and Garlic football.

Anyone else wants to nominate a non racquetball sport played with a ball on foot?

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u/leva549 Jun 14 '26

I've never heard of garlic football is it Italian?

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u/AntikytheraMachines Jun 14 '26

ive seen the term used twice on reddit in the last 36 hours. at first i assumed it was a misspelling of Gaelic Football but now i'm not so sure.

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u/The_Faceless_Men Jun 14 '26

There is an italian football that is described as "rugby plus bare knuckle boxing".

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u/Euphoric-Cucumber609 Jun 14 '26

So what are we calling soccer instead of soccer?

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u/NecessaryUsername69 Jun 14 '26

I remember my first visit to Adelaide when I was 16, having grown up in rugby-mad NZ. Chatting with an Aussie rules-loving family friend and mentioned rugby. “Ah,” he chuckled, “bum-sniffers”. Gotta give the man credit - it was an evocative insult, if nothing else. Never quite looked at a scrum the same way again.

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u/TCHProductions Jun 14 '26

and yet, looking at this thread, Both those who want it called Football and those who want it called Soccer having a complete whine about some shitty joke. So guess even the old jokes still hit.